Always visible scrollbar?

[treva26]

I have a form with a series of subforms in it.
The subforms contain a list of records and have a vertical scrollbar

Sometimes some of the subforms are empty, so no scrollbar is visable, just an ugly space.

Is it possible to have the vertical scrollbar of a form or subform "always on" or "always visible", weather it is needed or not?

 

[coyote]

Yes just open the subform in design view and right click the topleft corner to get the to the properties. Select format and on scrollbar select vertical only or any other you want to show.

 

[treva26]

Yes just open the subform in design view and right click the topleft corner to get the to the properties. Select format and on scrollbar select vertical only or any other you want to show.

I do have it on Vertical Only.
But when there is no data in the table there is no vertical scrollbar.
Which of course makes sennse normally, it just looks ugly.

 

[boblarson]

The ONLY way I know of is to use a scrollbar control on top of the form, but synching it would be a pain. Unless you just have it there for show

 

[Banana]

Alternatively, you could use an ActiveX control that does show it always. Except that if you are using XP theme, it'll look... dated. (unless there's a updated control I didn't know about). And besides, ActiveX control has its own problems.

I've since resigned to simply training my users about the peculiar behavior.

(Rant: Why can't Microsoft do it right and *actually* use the controls, not some kind of dummy lookalikes that does a half-assed job of doing an existing controls?!? Heck, why can't they make Access a proper IDE?)